ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,463, issued on May 27, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Activation force detected via neuromuscular-signal sensors of a wearable device, and systems and methods of use thereof" was invented by Peter Andrew Matsimanis (Menlo Park, Calif.), Tahir Turan Caliskan (Lund, Sweden), Pascal Alexander Bentioulis (Malmo, Sweden), Per-Erik Bergstrom (Malmo, Sweden) and Igor Gurovski (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The various implementations described herein include methods and systems for providing a force dimension to interface elements. In one aspect, a method includes (i) communicat...